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Ma’ayan Laufer, a Senior Consultant at Pugatch Consilium, spoke last week at the III Semana de Innovación en Salud (Week of Innovation in Health) event, held at Mexico City. Ma’ayan’s presentation focused on Mexico’s performance vis-à-vis global leaders in biomedical innovation as reflected in Pugatch Consilium’s international indices – including the Building the Bioeconomy series, the International IP Index and the Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness and Investment(BCI) Index.

At the panel – moderated by Gabriela Alarcón, Director of Urban Development at the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness and consisting also of Miguel Margáin, managing director of the Mexican patent & trademark office (Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial) and Rogelio Garza, the Sub-secretary for industry & commerce of the Ministry of Economy – Ma’ayan discussed the current challenges that hinder Mexico’s competitiveness in the biomedical field and the opportunities it holds for Mexico upon improvements to the current challenges in aspects of the regulatory environment, market access and IP protection, such as providing regulatory data protection for biologic drugs.

Amir specializes in the semiconductor industry, both in hardware and software spanning multi and cross market experience in Mobile, Security, Consumer Electronics, Embedded, Telecom, e-Commerce and Military segments. Amir has held senior management roles at a number of organisations and his skills have been utilised to lead and establish new business, integrate new technology and developed measurable outcomes for success with emerging new companies.
Amir’s work is international and he had an extensive experience with the North American, European, Asian and the Middle East markets.